[Thoggen-devel] Re: OGM vs Matroska?
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From: Sami H. <re...@re...> - 2005-03-29 07:36:31
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Tim Müller wrote: > The reason I chose Ogg is because it is the 'natural' container > format for Theora and Vorbis (all Xiph Foundation specs), and because > the Theora/Vorbis-in-Ogg combination is a fairly proven one: > Fluendo's streaming server (flumotion) uses these as well, so the > plugins are fairly well tested. Also, I consider Theora/Vorbis-in-Ogg > still more 'main-stream' than anything in a Matroska container, > meaning that I expect playback support to be less problematic in > general. AH! I completely forgot about Theora, which ofcourse changes the situation quite a bit. Theora being the Xiph way and OGG does fit more naturally to that purpose. > I've got absolutely nothing against Matroska, but I also don't feel > strongly enough about it to go and debug the GStreamer matroskamux > plugin or the underlying libraries if problems arise. I understand that really well. I fiddled with matroskamux yesterday and while it is included, muxing is not as straightforward as it seems. Either it was my pipeline or it is the muxer, i'll fiddle with it some more to see which one it is. > Nevertheless, Matroska support will be added at some point, together > with AVI and support for other codecs. There's work being done on > 'profiles' in GStreamer, and I'll wait for the outcome of that before > I do any further work on this in Thoggen. Great, that is good enough for me. - S |